Watching your favourite memes can make you obese, says a study

While scrolling through our social media accounts, we often come across memes. Some of them are so entertaining that it feels like we can go on and on watching and reading them. Such that at times it becomes like addiction.

But the meme world seems to be in danger as many countries are trying to curb the free flow of memes. British lawmakers are told that the internet memes may be contributing to obesity crisis in the United Kingdom.

Furthermore, according to a recent report by CNN, a team of researchers from Loughborough University in a letter to British Parliamentary Committee claimed that online memes convey harmful health messages and take unhealthy eating very lightly.

“People watch and share memes that directly or indirectly are related to negative and positive health messages,” the letter read.

To prove their point, the team of researchers added a picture of meme which read, ‘Free food? Count me in’. Such messages promote unhealthy eating.

Not just this, but the meme trend has drastically increased the amount of time spent on the internet by teenagers. The increased screen time is not harmful to our health in just one but many ways.

With inputs from ANI